Generalist social bees maximize diversity intake in plant species-rich and resource-abundant environments

Bee food: the chemistry and nutritional value of nectar, pollen and mixtures of the two

(2017) Susan W. Nicolson   AFRICAN ZOOLOGY

Seasonal availability of floral resources and ambient temperature shape stingless bee foraging behavior (Scaptotrigona aff. depilis)

(2016) Kátia Paula Aleixo et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Flower visitation patterns of the coexisting honey beesApis cerana japonicaandApis mellifera(Hymenoptera: Apidae)

(2016) Midzuho Tatsuno et al.   ENTOMOLOGICAL SCIENCE

How landscape, pollen intake and pollen quality affect colony growth in Bombus terrestris

(2016) Wiebke Kämper et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Urban gardens promote bee foraging over natural habitats and plantations

(2016) Benjamin F. Kaluza et al.   Ecology and Evolution

The Effect of Diet Mixing on a Nonselective Herbivore

(2016) Sophie Groendahl et al.   PLoS One

Determinants of spatial behavior of a tropical forest seed predator: The roles of optimal foraging, dietary diversification, and home range defense

(2015) Suzanne Palminteri et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

The conservation value of urban green space habitats for Australian native bee communities

(2015) Caragh G. Threlfall et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Honey bee diet in intensive farmland habitats reveals an unexpectedly high flower richness and a major role of weeds

(2015) Fabrice Requier et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Abundance of common species, not species richness, drives delivery of a real-world ecosystem service

(2015) Rachael Winfree et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Functional identity and diversity of animals predict ecosystem functioning better than species-based indices

(2015) V. Gagic et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Increased efficiency in identifying mixed pollen samples by meta-barcoding with a dual-indexing approach

(2015) Wiebke Sickel et al.   BMC ECOLOGY

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning

(2014) David Tilman et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Differences in the resource intake of two sympatric Australian stingless bee species

(2014) Sara D. Leonhardt et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Pollen and nectar quality drive the major and minor floral choices of bumble bees

(2014) Laurent Somme et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Anti-staphylococcal activity of C-methyl flavanones from propolis of Australian stingless bees (Tetragonula carbonaria) and fruit resins of Corymbia torelliana (Myrtaceae)

(2014) C.F. Massaro et al.   FITOTERAPIA

Secondary Compounds in Floral Rewards of Toxic Rangeland Plants: Impacts on Pollinators

(2014) Rebecca E. Irwin et al.   JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY

Diversity matters: how bees benefit from different resin sources

(2014) Nora Drescher et al.   OECOLOGIA

Evaluating multiplexed next-generation sequencing as a method in palynology for mixed pollen samples

(2014) A. Keller et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

How Does Pollen Chemistry Impact Development and Feeding Behaviour of Polylectic Bees?

(2014) Maryse Vanderplanck et al.   PLoS One

Bumble bee pollen use and preference across spatial scales in human-altered landscapes

(2013) SHALENE JHA et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Quantifying variation among garden plants in attractiveness to bees and other flower-visiting insects

(2013) Mihail Garbuzov et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Pollen mixing in pollen generalist solitary bees: a possible strategy to complement or mitigate unfavourable pollen properties?

(2013) Michael Eckhardt et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Influence of Pollen Nutrition on Honey Bee Health: Do Pollen Quality and Diversity Matter?

(2013) Garance Di Pasquale et al.   PLoS One

Metabolomics Reveals the Origins of Antimicrobial Plant Resins Collected by Honey Bees

(2013) Michael B. Wilson et al.   PLoS One

Wild Pollinators Enhance Fruit Set of Crops Regardless of Honey Bee Abundance

(2013) L. A. Garibaldi et al.   SCIENCE

Territorial biodiversity and consequences on physico-chemical characteristics of pollen collected by honey bee colonies

(2012) Jean-François Odoux et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Pollen morphology of the Myrtaceae. Part 1: tribes Eucalypteae, Lophostemoneae, Syncarpieae, Xanthostemoneae and subfamily Psiloxyloideae

(2012) Andrew H. Thornhill et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Pollen use by Megalopta sweat bees in relation to resource availability in a tropical forest

(2012) ADAM R. SMITH et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Biodiversity buffers pollination from changes in environmental conditions

(2012) Claire Brittain et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Resource diversity and landscape-level homogeneity drive native bee foraging

(2012) S. Jha et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A general and simple method for obtainingR2from generalized linear mixed-effects models

(2012) Shinichi Nakagawa et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The same, but different: pollen foraging in honeybee and bumblebee colonies

(2011) Sara Diana Leonhardt et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Landscape-scale resources promote colony growth but not reproductive performance of bumble bees

(2011) Neal M. Williams et al.   ECOLOGY

Evaluation of the nutritive value of maize for honey bees

(2011) Nicole Höcherl et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Tree Resin Composition, Collection Behavior and Selective Filters Shape Chemical Profiles of Tropical Bees (Apidae: Meliponini)

(2011) Sara D. Leonhardt et al.   PLoS One

The Role of Resources and Risks in Regulating Wild Bee Populations

(2010) T'ai H. Roulston et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Resin-foraging by colonies ofTrigona sapiensandT. hockingsi(Hymenoptera: Apidae, Meliponini) and consequent seed dispersal ofCorymbia torelliana(Myrtaceae)

(2010) Helen M. Wallace et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Landscape enhancement of floral resources for honey bees in agro-ecosystems

(2010) Axel Decourtye et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Propolis and bee health: the natural history and significance of resin use by honey bees

(2010) Michael Simone-Finstrom et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Bees in disturbed habitats use, but do not prefer, alien plants

(2010) Neal M. Williams et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Functional complementarity and specialisation: The role of biodiversity in plant–pollinator interactions

(2010) Nico Blüthgen et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Diet effects on honeybee immunocompetence

(2010) C. Alaux et al.   Biology Letters

Floral resources foraged byGeotrigona argentina(Apidae, Meliponini) in the Argentine Dry Chaco forest

(2010) Favio Gerardo Vossler et al.   GRANA

Body size differs in workers produced across time and is associated with variation in the quantity and composition of larval food in Nannotrigona perilampoides (Hymenoptera, Meliponini)

(2010) J. J. G. Quezada-Euán et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

A fresh framework for the ecology of arid Australia

(2010) S.R. Morton et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Ecological impacts of invasive alien species on bees

(2009) Jane C. Stout et al.   APIDOLOGIE

A Sticky Affair: Resin Collection by Bornean Stingless Bees

(2009) Sara Diana Leonhardt et al.   BIOTROPICA

RESIN COLLECTION AND SOCIAL IMMUNITY IN HONEY BEES

(2009) Michael Simone et al.   EVOLUTION

Nutritive value of 15 single pollens and pollen mixes tested on larvae produced by bumblebee workers (Bombus terrestris, Hymenoptera: Apidae)

(2008) Jean-Noël Tasei et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Simultaneous Inference in General Parametric Models

(2008) Torsten Hothorn et al.   BIOMETRICAL JOURNAL

Urban domestic gardens (XII): The richness and composition of the flora in five UK cities

(2008) Alison Loram et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Might Flowers of Invasive Plants Increase Native Bee Carrying Capacity? Intimations From Capitol Reef National Park, Utah

(2008) V. J. Tepedino et al.   NATURAL AREAS JOURNAL

Complementarity effects through dietary mixing enhance the performance of a generalist insect herbivore

(2008) Sybille B. Unsicker et al.   OECOLOGIA

The "fire stick farming" hypothesis: Australian Aboriginal foraging strategies, biodiversity, and anthropogenic fire mosaics

(2008) R. Bliege Bird et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Effects of urbanization on species richness: A review of plants and animals

(2008) Michael L. McKinney   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS